Ok, so there are several different alphabets also used around the world, and many extinct ones as well, and many numbers and symbols which are used as well, but you get the general idea!
Note: I don’t know whose this image belongs to, but i just randomly found it on Facebook on a fanpage for Dr Who! https://www.facebook.com/The.Doctor.Who.Tardis
I had to share this great statement, because it is so true!
Note: I don’t know whose this image belongs to, but i just randomly found it on Facebook on a fanpage for Dr Who! https://www.facebook.com/The.Doctor.Who.Tardis
“Ear-hair grows from a place medically known as the tragus because tragos was Greek for goat, and ear-hair resembles a goat’s beard. Ancient Athenian actors used to wear goatskin when they acted in serious plays, which is why the plays came to be known the songs of the goat, or tragedies.”
- The Etymologicon by Mark Forsyth
(Totally random, but fascinating to learn where the word “tragedy” came from!)
They found the Sand-fairy easily. Anthea said:
‘I wish we all had beautiful wings to fly with.’
The Sand-fairy blew himself out, and next moment each child felt a funny feeling, half heaviness and half lightness, on its shoulders. The Psammead put its head on one side and turned its snail’s eyes from one to the other.
‘Not so dusty,’ it said dreamily. ‘But really, Robert, you’re not quite such an angel as you look.’ Robert almost blushed.
The wings were very big, and more beautiful than you can possibly imagine – for they were soft and smooth, and every feather lay neatly in its place. And the feathers were of the most lovely mixed changing colours, like the rainbow, or iridescent glass, or the beautiful scum that sometimes floats on water that is not at all nice to drink.
- Five Children and It, E. Nesbit
“You could run from someone you feared, you could try to fight someone you hated. All my reactions were geared toward those kinds of killers – the monsters, the enemies. When you loved the one who was killing you, it left you no options. How could you run, how could you fight, when doing so would hurt that beloved one? If your life was all you had to give your beloved, how could you not give it? If it was someone you truly loved?”
― Stephenie Meyer, Breaking Dawn
“Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.”
― Joanne Harris, Chocolat
Alice came to a fork in the road. ‘Which road do I take?’ she asked.
‘Where do you want to go?’ responded the Cheshire Cat.
‘I don’t know,’ Alice answered.
‘Then,’ said the Cat, ‘it doesn’t matter.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
“I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
